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Thursday, January 30, 2014

hey, old timer

One of the benefits of being born…er, a while back, is that I never had social media when I was a teenager. I can only imagine how my obsessive little mind would have taken to the medium. All the imagined slights against me ("Nobody 'liked' my selfie?!"), postings about parties I wasn't invited to, and most terrifyingly, boys. What if one of 'em sent me a "poke"? "Do I poke back? Does he poke all the girls?" This could evolve into a double entendre fest, so I'll stop there.

Alternatively, I might have been too afraid of creating an online presence. "Purposely posting pictures of myself? For people to look at?" But then, I would have been shunned for not having an online presence, certainly, and the pressure would have gotten to me. Of course, I'm not looking at this like a modern-day teenager. My imagined future teenage self probably would have created an online persona, complete with a fake name and an avatar who typed out everything in abbreviations like "c u n gym l8r." [shudder]

And online gaming? Oh, forget it. Sure, I was pretty kick-ass back in the day with Asteroids and Ms. Pacman, but World of Warcraft? I never would have made it.